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UNITED STATES LEMAN C. MINER, JR, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

PATENT OFFICE. Q

CIGAR-PERFORATOR.

SPECIFICATION-forming part of Letters Patent No, 361,071, dated April12, 1887.

Application filed January 13, 1887. Serial No. 224,263.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LEMAN O. MINER, J r. of Brooklyn, in the county ofKings and State of New York, have invented a new and ImprovedGigar-Perforator, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

This invention relates to devices designed for use in the perforating ofcigarsthat is,to an instrument whereby a needle or puncturer may beforced up through'the tip and within the body of the cigar, as will behereinafter more fully described, and specifically pointed outin theclaims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar figures of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the views.

.Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of my improved cigar-perforator. Fig.2 is acrosssectional elevation taken on the line a; m of Fig. 1, theparts being in the position indicated in dotted lines; and Fig. 3 is aplan view.

In the drawings, 10 represents a case in the top of which there isformed a concave recess, 11, which recess is centrally apertured, asshown at 2, to provide for the passage of a puncturingneedle, 12, whichis guided in an aperture that is formed in a block, 13, which block isrigidly connected to or made inte- 0 gral with the casing 10. At theopposite side of the casing 10 there is mounted a bell-crank lever, 14,one arm of which extends upward through a slot, 3, that is formed in thetop of the casing 10, while the other arm of thelever 5 extends acrossthe case to a position so that it may be conveniently connected with thelower end of the shank of the needle or puncturer,

12 by means of a link, such as that shown at 15. A spring is arranged inconnection with 0 the lever 14, the purpose of which is to hold theparts in the positions in which they are shown in full lines in Fig. 1,such spring being shown in the drawings at 16, and represented as beingconnected at one end with the lever 14 and at the other with a stud, 17.

A knife or cutter, 18, is pivotally connected to the block 13,projecting upward in a vertical plane to a point just beneath the recess11, at which point the knife is bent over at so right angles, so that itmay be drawn across the aperture 2, the knife being connected to thelever 14 by means of a link, 19.

Such being the general construction of my (ModeL) cigar-perforator, theoperation is as follows: The-tip of the cigar is inserted within therecess 11. The lever 14 is then thrown in the direction of the arrowshown in connection therewith in Fig. 1, and, being so thrown,will actto draw the knife 12 across the aperture 2, and as the knife is so drawnthe tip of the cigar will be cut or severed from the body of the cigar,and just as the knife has passed the aperture 2 the puncturer or needle12 will pass upward'through the said aperture and into the body of thecigar, making a passage -or 6 draft-flue in said body, and therebyinsuring a free draft or suction.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a cigar-perforator, the combination, with a slotted and aperturedcasing, of a needle working in guides in the casing and aspring-actuated bell-crank lever having one of its arms projectingthrough the casing and its other arm connected to theneedle,substantially as herein shown and described.

2. In a cigar-perforator, thevcombination, with a slotted and aperturedcasing, of a needle working in guides in the casing,a bellcrankleverhaving one arm projecting through the slot of the casing, alinkpivoted to theinner arm of the bell-crank lever and the needle, and aspring connected to the casing and one arm of the bell-crank lever,substantially as herein shown and described.

3. In a cigar-perforator, the combination, with an apertured casing, aneedle working in guidesin the casing, and a lever for operating theneedle, of apivoted knife and a connection between said needleoperatinglever and knife, substantially as herein shown and described.

4. In a cigar-perforator, the combination, with a slotted and aperturedcasing, a guideblock in the casing, a needle working in the block, and aspring-actuated bell-crank lever, and alink connecting the lever to theneedle, of a knife pivoted to the guide-block and a link connecting theknife to one arm of the bell-crank-lever, substantially as herein shownand described.

LEMAN G. MINER, JR. Witnesses:

EDWARD KENT, J12, O. SEDGwIoK.

